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- Editorial: Court Decision Could Have Chilling Effect on Music (Time.com)
"Yesterday, a jury ruled that, due to similarities between Thicke’s hit “Blurred Lines” and Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up,” the R&B singer and producer Pharrell Williams must pay nearly $7.4 million to the late Gaye’s children."
"Musical phrasing and structure, unlike the structure of thoughts in a paragraph or the design of a dress, is particularly hard to pick apart on plagiaristic grounds; there are so many elements of a song working together, and to untangle them is to get frustratingly semantic." 03-15
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